​The Business Department is proud to announce that the following students have successfully demonstrated proficiency in Personal Finance by achieving a passing score on the nationally standardized Financial Literacy Certification Test. Subjects mastered include money, budgeting, banking, credit, insurance, investing, retirement planning, and financial planning and management. The students are officially, nationally Certified Financially Literate! Congratulations to all on the outstanding achievement.

​We are proud to recognize and congratulate one of our LOLHS students, Everett Steiner, for being named: "Firefighter of the Year" by the Lyme Fire Company. Everett will be heading to UNH next year to study Fire Science / Paramedecine.

​Way to go Everett! 

This coming Friday, while the senior class is enjoying their senior trip, LOLHS will welcome our incoming class of 2021. As part of our Eighth Grade Orientation (EGO) students will begin with a "meet and greet" with some upper classmen and faculty followed by a teacher /student panel discussion. They will attend a class with an upperclassman and find out about all the activities the high school has to offer by checking out our club fair. At noon we will all enjoy a BBQ lunch together while listening to the tunes of a Connecticut Military Rock Band featuring our own Mr. Hibson, LOLMS Library Media Specialist. To close the day, all students will partake in their end of year class meeting and class elections ... Eight Graders will meet their Freshman Class Advisers, Mrs Trost and Mrs Fried, and plan the excitement of freshman year after voting in next years class officers! It will be an exciting, informative and successful orientation.

On Friday, May 19,  LOLHS students and staff enjoyed our first annual Field Day thanks to the efforts of the Student Leaders and leadership of Mr. Zubek and Mrs. Ressler.  We enjoyed a great afternoon with activities that included a bouncy house, a dunk tank, yard games, a photo booth, cotton candy, popcorn, ice cream, flag football, ultimate Frisbee, wii, board games, ping pong, face painting,  cake walks, 1 minute activities.... so much fun and and something for everyone! It was lots of fun!

It was an amazing evening on Tuesday evening... the annual spring concert which included performances from the Men's and Women's Ensemble, Select Singers and Concert Chorus. It was truly enjoyable to listen to the talent of our LOLHS choral students. The concert ran the gamete from serious to playful -  paying tribute to some of the artists who passed away in 2016 including David Bowie, Leonard Cohen, Prince Rogers Nelson and George Michael and then moving to  the Beatles, Mama Mia and ending with the fabulous Bohemian Rhapsody! Take a listen to one of the pieces...

A team of 5 students from Lyme—Old Lyme High School narrowly missed winning the 26th annual Connecticut High School Geography Challenge at UConn in Storrs on Tuesday, May 16. The Connecticut High School Geography Challenge is an annual statewide interscholastic academic team competition hosted by the Connecticut Geographic Alliance.  The theme of this year’s highly competitive event was “Fresh Water”.
 
A team of five students from South Windsor High School won the statewide interscholastic competition, one point ahead of the Fairfield Warde team on a tie breaker question on the day’s final event. Lyme—Old Lyme High School, last year’s winner, finished a close third this year.  The Lyme—Old Lyme High School team was composed of Sarah Kwon, Ryan McTigue, Hannah Wisner, Natalie Rugg, and Cole Dushin, and their coach was teacher Glenn Elliott.

Eighteen high school teams from around Connecticut competed in events focused on this year’s theme of “Fresh Water”.  In the morning students scoured the central campus in a modified orienteering event or a new geo-caching activity that used GPS technology, read traditional maps and online GIS information in the map reading activity, and hunted for a gang of spies in a virtual scavenger hunt problem-solving activity.   In the afternoon all teams competed in a geography quiz bowl in the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center on campus.  These events all had thematic “Fresh Water” related questions for students to solve and answer.  ​Nice work LOLHS Geo Challenge Team!!!

Thank you to the junior class for putting on a successful prom! Student arrived transformed... take a look at some of the pictures:

The Lyme-old Lyme High School Robotics Team, recently participated in the National FIRST Championship in St. Louis Missouri. The competition featured nearly 600 teams from 33 Countries and 15,000 students participating in a four-day event.   In both events, Lyme-Old Lyme students performed exceptionally, and were selected to participate in the division finals.
 
The robotics contest asks students to design and build a robot to compete in a competition that varies in its task each year.  For example, this year’s task involved picking up Whiffle balls and shooting them through a target 7’ high.  The robot also needed to climb a rope and deliver gear shaped game pieces to a hook on the playing field.  Students need to complete the design-and-build process in a tight six- week window.  Not only does the robot need to operate by remote control, but it also must be able to work autonomously, that is, under its own control through programming. Laura Lee Wayland, one of the operators and a team engineer at the Championship, said of the recent competition, “Our robot effectively utilized all components in a seamless manner. This allowed us to compete among the best robots in the world”.